CSRC Oral History: Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Interviews

Author/Creator

Author/Creator ORCID

Date

2020-08-05

Department

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Program

Center for the Study of Religion and the City (CSRC)

Citation of Original Publication

Rights

CC0 1.0 Universal

Abstract

The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that returns Indigenous land to Indigenous people. It was founded in 2012 with the goals of returning traditionally Chochenyo and Karkin lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship and cultivating more active, reciprocal relationships with the land. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, Sogorea Te’ calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. The CSRC grant will be used to expand food production and distribution for members of urban Indigenous communities who have been affected by COVID-19.